It reminded me of my days in college where professors encouraged us to use Matlab. A variety of reasons made me not like it but one of them for sure was the rea

It reminded me of my days in college where professors encouraged us to use Matlab. A variety of reasons made me not like it but one of them for sure was the realization that the moment I left college Matlab would no longer be "free" to me. Yes, I know Octave exists, no it can't do everything Matlab can do and a lot of the programs I saw used needed Matlab specific things.